Spectrum News Capital Region | |
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Launched | October 11, 2002 |
Network | Spectrum News |
Owned by | Charter Communications |
Picture format | 480i (SDTV) |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Broadcast area | Albany, New York |
Headquarters | Albany, New York |
Formerly called | Capital News 9 (2002–2010) YNN Capital Region (2010–2013) Time Warner Cable News Capital Region (2013-2016) |
Sister channel(s) |
NY1 Spectrum News Austin Spectrum News Buffalo Spectrum News Central New York Spectrum News North Carolina Spectrum News Rochester |
Website |
www (Capital Region) www (Hudson Valley) |
Availability
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Cable | |
Spectrum (most of Eastern New York) |
Channels 1 and 9 (SD) |
Spectrum (Queensbury) |
Channels 1 and 78 (SD) |
Spectrum (Canajoharie) |
Channels 1 and 97 (SD) |
Spectrum (northern Berkshire County, Massachusetts) |
Channel 7 (SD) |
Spectrum (southern Berkshire County, Massachusetts) |
Channel 95 (SD) |
Spectrum News Capital Region (formerly Time Warner Cable News Capital Region) is an American cable news television channel that is owned by Charter Communications, as an affiliate of its Spectrum News slate of regional news channels. The channel provides 24-hour rolling news coverage focused primarily on the Capital District of eastern New York. The channel is headquartered in Albany, New York, and maintains a subfeed serving the Hudson Valley region. Spectrum News Capital Region is carried on channel 9 throughout most of the region, although its channel slot varies in the towns of Queensbury and Canajoharie, and in Berkshire County, Massachusetts.
As with the rest of its upstate sister news channels in upstate New York, Spectrum News Capital Region shares news content with New York City-based NY1, Charter's flagship regional cable news channel (which the provider carries on the digital tiers of its Upstate New York systems).
Prior to the launch of the channel, Time Warner Cable carried a repurposed rebroadcast of the 6:00 p.m. newscast from CBS affiliate WRGB (channel 6) on its local origination channel on channel 9. After Nielsen ratings reports showed that the broadcast was competitive with the fledgling 6:30 p.m. newscast on Fox affiliate WXXA-TV (channel 23), Time Warner Cable moved forward with plans to launch an in-house 24-hour news channel.